Obie McKay says he was looking forward to improving his baking skills through Confederation College's culinary management program.

But after being accepted into the program for September 2025, the Grade 12 student has learned that it's one of 11 academic programs at the college that have been suspended, which means fall admissions at the Thunder Bay, Ont., school have been cancelled.

McKay, who is from Wapekeka First Nation, attends Dennis Franklin Cromarty (DFC), an all-Indigenous high school in…